With in basic terms 5 days until eventually Christmas 1942, Shepards division shop vice chairman James Burkhart hires inner most Investigator Nicholas Chambers to seem into the murky previous of his destiny son-in-law. The secret deepens whilst an eccentric paintings collector recruits Chambers to buy a unprecedented Austrian clock at public sale.

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